Kurt Pan 密码周刊 (47)

1Posts & Books

• 内积证明
• ZK Hack Puzzle 3 题解：如何用Pedersen承诺实现漏洞攻破零知识内积证明系统
• 安全协议进展国际会议（PSP 2021）暨中国密码学会安全协议专委会工作会议在线上举办
• 一些字符串问题的几乎最优量子算法
• 相对论的全新应用
• Aztec 介绍
• Merkle Tree（默克尔树）算法解析
• MPC协议之简图
• How to design a VM for MPC?
• Cryptographers are not happy with how you’re using the word ‘crypto’
• Dusk Network to use Grants program for Zero-Knowledge research
• Infinite Privacy: New Anonymity Paradigms with Aztec Network
• Rollups at scale
• State of research: increasing censorship resistance of transactions under proposer/builder separation (PBS)
• GDPR Compliance: Staying Current with State-of-the-Art Cryptography
• Clusters: how trusted & trust-minimized bridges shape the multi-chain landscape
• Computing classical combinatorial numbers
• Computational Cryptography: Algorithmic Aspects of Cryptology February 2022
• The Joy of Cryptography

2Videos & Podcasts

• zkStudyClub: PLONKUP & Reinforced Concrete
• 揭秘隐藏了18年的金光之谜：解析《黑客帝国3》 开幕的金光
• ZK HACK #5 - Introduction to Aztec Connect

3Projects & Docs

• The NFT Bay
• Aleph Zero
• Winterfell: A STARK prover and verifier for arbitrary computations.
• mcl: A portable and fast pairing-based cryptography library.
• hacspec: A specification language for crypto primitives and more in Rust.
• Cairo by example
• Awesome StarkNet
• Introduction to arkworks algebra APIs
• How to install EasyCrypt and Jazmin

4Papers & Conferences

• InterTrust: Towards an Efficient Blockchain Interoperability Architecture with Trusted Services
• Clarion: Anonymous Communication from Multiparty Shuffling Protocols
• Post-Quantum Simulatable Extraction with Minimal Assumptions: Black-Box and Constant-Round
• HOLMES: A Platform for Detecting Malicious Inputs in Secure Collaborative Computation
• Practical Garbled RAM: GRAM with Overhead
• On Cryptocurrency Wallet Design
• An Improved Range Proof with Base-3 Construction
• Amortizing Rate-1 OT and Applications to PIR and PSI
• A Performance Evaluation of Pairing-Based Broadcast Encryption Systems
• An Alternative Approach for Computing Discrete Logarithms in Compressed SIDH
• Experimenting with Collaborative zk-SNARKs: Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Distributed Secrets
• On the Download Rate of Homomorphic Secret Sharing
• The Legendre Symbol and the Modulo-2 Operator in Symmetric Schemes over (F_p)^n
• An Optimized GHV-Type HE Scheme: Simpler, Faster, and More Versatile
• SoK: Tokenization on Blockchain
• Route Discovery in Private Payment Channel Networks
• Post-Quantum Zero Knowledge, Revisited (or: How to do Quantum Rewinding Undetectably)
• Average-case Hardness of NP and PH from Worst-case Fine-grained Assumptions
• Sublinear quantum algorithms for estimating von Neumann entropy
• A Guide for New Program Committee Members at Theoretical Computer Science Conferences

5Upcoming Events

• On the Security of Homomorphic Encryption on Approximate Numbers by Daniele Micciancio Thu, 25 Nov 2021 16:00
• Noah Fleming (UCSD) - Extremely Deep Proofs 25/November/2021 (Thursday) at 5pm London Time
• Layer 2 Scaling Solutions Tuesday, November 30, 7PM HKT / 12PM CET
• ZK Jobs Fair #5 (with ZK Hack Party) Fri, December 3, 2021 2:00 AM – 5:00 AM CST
• The 12th BIU Winter School on Cryptography: Advances in Secure Computation January 23-26, 2022
• StarkNet Ecosystem Summit 2022 Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 9:00 AM – Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 6:00 PM PST
• PRIVACY-ENHANCING TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT EUROPE ZURICH, SWITZERLAND 4-6 APRIL, 2022
• 量子信息与量子计算预读班：追踪量子信息革命交叉前沿 : 2021年12月5日开始，预计持续13周